The Engineer 1877 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous
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Accident on the Great Northern Railway, II. P., 8
Arlesey Accident, The, H. W. Mason, C.E., 26
Board of Trade, Lloyd’s and Marine Engines, B. C. J., i 96
Board of Trade, Lloyd’s and Marine Engines, Inspector, 132
Board of Trade, Lloyd's and Marine Engines, J. B , 96
Board of Trade, Lloyd’s and Marine Engines, II.
MacColl, 146
Board of Trade, Lloyd's and Marine Engines, A
Marine Engine Builder of 40 Years’ Experience, 96
Board of Trade, Lloyd's and Marine Engines, A
Marine Engineer, 110
Board of Trade, Lloyd’s and Marine Engines, Sandy
McNab, 146
Board of Trade, Lloyds and Marine Engines, Quayside, 96
Board of Trade, Lloyd’s and Marine Engines, Sarri-tor, 96 •
Board of Trade, Lloyd’s and Marine Engines, Shipowner, 96, 132
Board of Trade, Lloyd’s and Marine Engines, J. P.
Smeaton, 132
Board of Trade, Lloyd’s and Marine’Engines,
W. B. M., 213
Boiler Explosions, Boiler, 275, 311
Boiler Explosions on Board Men-of-War, M. G. B., 8
Blundell’s Pumps, J. Stone and Co., 115
Breaking of Engine Shafts in the Royal Navy, F. W.
Turner, 411
Brown’s Steam Crane, Brown, Brothers, and Co., 26
Casson-Dormoy Patent Gas-Puddling and Self-
Stoking Double Furnace, R. Smith Casson, 235
Characters by which some Perfect Squares may be
Distinguished, J. W. Barnett, 43
Citadel Ships, I. A., 253
Citadel Ships, J. Evelyn Williams 253
Coal Dust Fuel, G. K. Stevenson, 356
Commercial Engineering, Commercial, 323
Commercial Engineering. Experience, 311
Conservation of Energy, The, 0 26, 42, 78
Continuous Brakes, Ajax, 429
Continuous Brakes, F. Blancquart, 446
Continuous Brakes, Fish-Plate, 411
Continuous Brakes, Ramsey Kendall, 370
Continuous Brakes, Tacitus, 389, 446
Continuous Brakes, Robert Walker, 147
Decimal Measuring Machine, J. W., 311
Deep Well Boring, Alf. A. Langley, 312
Deep Wells, Richard Allison, 147
Deep Wells, W. H. Penning, F.G.S., 204
Drainage in Lincoln, J no. Maltby, Mayor of Boston, 235
Drawing Boring Rods, Richard Allison, 165
Engineer Officers, Royal Navy, X, 252
Engineers and Engineers, A Grumbler on Shore, 213
Engineers in India, Audi Alteram Partem, 323
Engineers in the Navy, C. I., 185
Engineers in the Navy, Nemo, 235
Engineers in the Navy, A Victim, 283
Engineers in the Navy, James Evans Waygood, 185
Floods of the Thames and the Shannon, James
Lynam, C.E., 96
Force and Motion, Robt. D. Napier (See pp. 26, 42,
and 78 235
Gas Furnaces, J. F. Boetius, 356
Gas Furnaces, R. Smith Casson, 283, 370
Gas Furnaces, A. Coyte, 252, 323, 370
Gas Furnaces, H. L , 370
Gas Furnaces, C. Holste, 323, 370
Gas Furnaces, J. R., 411
Gas Furnaces, D. M Corkindale, 356
Gas Furnaces, Nettlefold’s, 356
Gas Furnaces, Oxide, 389, 446
Gas Furnaces, C. William Siemens, 356, 389
Gas Furnaces, Styrian, 389
Gas Furnaces, Augustus Westwood and Co , 389
Gas Furnaces, Joseph Whitham and Son. 389
Gas Furnaces, Fred. Yates, 283, 356, 411,-429
Gas Furnaces of Boetius and Bicheroux, J. F Boetius, 283
Gun Cotton, A. C., 26
St. Helier’s Harbour Works, Jersey, Petit Crapaud, 213
High Speed Belts, Fredk. Evans, 311
II.M.S. Tourmaline, Brotherhood and Hardingham, 275
II.M.S. Tourmaline, Fair Play, 282
H.M.8. Tourmaline, R. and W. Hawthorn, 275
H.M.S. Tourmaline, N. K., 282
Hot Short Steels, Daniel Adamson, 8
Inclined v. Vertical Armour, Francis J. Palmer, 283
Influence of Gravity upon Bodies Revolving in a
Vertical Plane, H. Moy Thomas, 27
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, A Member, 43
Institution of Civil Engineers, Mem. Inst. C.E., 342
Institution of Civil Engineers, The, Progress, 235
Jackettcd Cylinders, John Pinchbeck, 61
Letters to the’ Editor (continued}—
Jacketted Cylinders, M. Ridley 8
i Cylinders, Savory and Son, 26
Jacketted Cylinders, Tuxford and Sons, 43
Labour and Capital, Scotus, 311
Liability of Engineers, Engineer, 147
Liability of Engineers, Engineers, 26
Lincolnshire Floods, The, Edward Welsh, 185
Levelling Instruments, W. S. Hall, 370
Locomotive r ire-boxes, 8. Hannah, 7
Machine Puddling 8. (Referring to p. 150), 201
Marine Boiler Explosions, Adam Miller (see p. 30), 60
Marine Engines, H MacColl, 115 '
Manne Propulsion. Thos Garnett, 311
Measuring Instruments, W. Bissell, 253
Measurmg Instruments, George Falkner and Son, zoo
Measuring Instruments, Robt. L. Kerr {See p. 25),
^StrU^®J??8’ Wm- Smith and Son, 283
•ne ator8’ Colliery Engineer, 446
Mine Ventilators, Wm. Daniel, 446
Mine Ventilators, Easton and Tattersail, 420
?!?lons of Pennsylvania, Chas. Clarkson, Ol, to, Zo4
Naval Engineer Reform, W. G., 213
Paris Tramways, G. P. Harding, 323
Patent Bill, The, John Brown, 132
Patent Bill, The, Peter Jensen, 132
Patent Bill, The, Yates W. Booth, 132
Hamilton, 1877’ The- Wm' TiShe
Patents for inventions Bill, 1877, The, Lewis Olrick,
7BiU’ 18771 The’ JU11US R
Patents for Inventions Bill, 1877, The. H. H Mur doch, 203
Peqamn,?i?team Boilers> Lewis Olrick (Refer to p. uoi//f 411
Phosphor Bronze, John Buchanan, 8
Phosphor Bronze, P. Dewar and Son, 59
Phosphor Bronze, W. Hollis, 8
Phosphor Bronze, Jas. Whalley, 43
Pope’s Boiler, Engineer, 312
Preliminary Examination of Patents, W. Spence, Assoc. Inst. C.E., 8, 43
Preservation of Iron, J. H. Johnson, 323
Preservation of Iron, J. Carter Ramsden, 311, 342, 356 ’ 1
Prime Cost, G. W., 147
Priming of Steam Boilers, J. J. Webster, 446
Propulsion, Marine, W. S., 203
Propulsion Screw, W. H. M. (See p. 141), 185
Railway Accidents, E. A. E 59
Railway Speeds, D. N., 8
Repairs at Sea, A I. C. E., 146
Responsibility of Engineers, The, Manufacturer 60
River Weaver Appointment. The, J. C W 146
River Weaver Appointment, Sectarianism’ v. Engineering, M. I. C. E., 96 s
Riveted Joints, The Strength of, W. H M 213
The Strength of, Thomas Baldwin, 203 (Referring to p. 125)
Riveted Joints, W. R. Browne, 146
Riveted Joints, The Strength of, W. 8 Hall 185 Riveted Joints, The Strength of, Investigator, It5 Riveted Joints, The Strength of, Robert Wilson, 165 Ropes, Engineer, 235 (See Miscellanea, p. 217)
Ropes, Hamilton W. Pendred, C E., 311
Rowan’s Steam Tram-car, Robert F. Fairlie 446 Rules, Tables, and Data, D. K. Clark, 323 ’ ® James Caton, Sea-going Engineer,
26, 60
Sanitary Engineering, Hayward Tyler and Co., 429
Self-acting Bucket, E F. Denison, 446
Y,ewever Reach the P<*le?-The Author of
Shall We ever Reach the Pole ?” 323
Ships’ Pumps, Blundell Brothers, 311
Siemens, Dr., on Utilising Natural Forces, Giulio
Melhsugo, C.E., 243
Snow and Telegraph Posts, A Non-Believer in Cheap Articles, 201 1
Snow and Telegraph Posts, Godfrey Sinclair, 185
Snow and the Telegraphs, F. Russell and Co.. 213
Snow and the Telegraphs, X, Y. Z , 252
Sound Diagrams, George Cope Pearce, 203 (Referring \ to p. j.yz)
Special Engines. T. M., 283
Stop Valves, Brinjes and Goodwin, 446
Stop Valves, J. S Windell and Co., 446
Strength of Railway Bridges, H. Parkes, jun , 146
Supply of Air to Furnaces, J. E. W., 9
Supply of Air to Furnaces, W. A. Martin and Co., 4o I
Supply of Air to Furnaces, Herbert Quicke, 79
Supply of Air to Furnaces, W. M. A , 26
Testing Steam Engines, Thomas Baldwin, 61
Testing Steam Engines, C., 26
Testing Steam Engines, B. W. Farey, 26
I esting Steam Engines, H. D. Jones, 8 42
Testing Steam Engines, Wm. McN , 8 42
Testing Steam Engines, W. H. NorthcJtt, 61 1^!immuFlooclT1;?’ev1ention> One of the Promoters of the Thames Mood Prevention Bill of 1875-6 2j5
Thames Flood, James Vogan, 147
Thomas v. the Queen, Lynall Thomas (Referring to p 183), 204
Thrust of Screw Shafts, The, C. Kloos, 59
Thunderer, Explosion on Board the, Marine Engi-iiQOP 43 ’ ®
Thunderer, H.M.S., W. S. L., 8
Thunderer, Safety Valves of the, H. I. C. M. R. S., 43 ’
Torpedoes, Richard Allison, 446
Torpedoes, Chas. W. Rowe, 411
Tramways, Steam on, Benjamin C Badham, 185
Tramways, Steam on, Charles A. Harrison, 323
Tramways, Steam on, Henry Hughes, 283
Tramways, Steam on, 311
Treatment of Sewage, J. C. Melliss, 411
Tube Plate Cutters, J. M. Raine, 323
Turbine at Waltham Abbey, Royal Gunpowder Factory, R. Perrott and Sons, 43
Water Meters, J. Tylor and Sons, 252
Water Power in India, Sami. Leigh, 43
Water Power in India, Wentworth Taylor, 59
Water Power in Ireland, Aquarius, 8
Water Supply of Villages and Towns, Richard Allison, 96
Waterwitch Pump, Our, Blundell Bros., 115
Leupold, Mr. H., Donkey Feed Pump, 441, 451
Levelling Instruments, 353, 370
Lightning Conductors, 230
Lincolnshire, Coal in, 326, 338
Lines or Chains, Hauling-down Instructions from the
Admiralty concerning, 285
Literature— ;
Abstract of Reported Cases Relating to Letters Patent for Inventions, by T. M. Goodevo, M.A., 118
Compendium dor Gasfeuer mg in ihrer Anwendung auf die Hutten-industrie, &c., von Ferdinand Steinmann, 397
The Complete Practical Machinist; embracing Lathe Work, Vice Work, making Use of Tools’ &c., by Joshua Rose, 47 ’
Electro-Telegraphy, by F. S. Beechey, Telegraph Engineer, 291 *
The Elements of Machine Design, an Introduction to the Principles which determine the Arrangement and Proportions of the Parts of Machines, and a Collection of Rules for Machine Design, by W. Cawthorne Unwin, 229
Fire Protection ; a Complete Manual of the Organisation, Machinery, Discipline, and General Working of the Fire Brigade of London, by Eyre M. Shaw, 309
Gasfeuerung, Oder die rationelle Construction indus-trieller Keuerungsanlagen, nach dem Franzbsi-schen yon M. Bichet, &c. Von L. Ramdohr, 897
°* Metrical Testing, by H. R. Kempe,
A«&. l.E., 291
Literature (continued}— ~
Industrial Classes and Industrial Statistics, Mining, Metals, Chemicals, Ceramics, Glass, and Paper, with Maps, Edward Stanford, 451
Information for Colonial Engineers, Edited by J • I, Hurst. Part I., Ceylon, by A. Deane ; Part IL. South Africa, by H. Hall; Part III., India, by F. C. Danvers, 326 .
Imperial College of Engineering, Tokai, Japan. Calendar for Session, 1877. Prepared by Henry
Dyer, C.E., M.A.B., &c. . e
The Kinematics of Machinery: Outlines of a Theory of Machines, by F. Reulaux. Translated and Edited by Alex. B. W. Kennedy, C.E., 211, 247
A Short Manual of Heat for the Use of Schools and Science Classes, by the Rev. A. Irving, B.A., &c., 151
Manual of ihe Mechanics of Engineering, and the Construction of Machines, with an Introduction to the Calculus, by Julius Weisbach, Ph. D. Vol. L, Theoretical Mechanics. Translated by Eckley B.
Coxe, M.A., 345
Manual of Rules, Tables and Data for Mechanical Engineers, bv Daniel Kinnear Clark, 308
Pioneer Engineering: A Treatise on the Engineering Operations connected with the Settlement of Waste Lands in New Countries, by Edward Dobson, A.I.C.E., 361
The Plumber and Sanitary Houses: Practical Treatise on the Principles of Internal Plumbing Work, or the Best Means for Effectually Excluding Noxious Gases from our Houses, by S. S. Hellyer, 433
Practical Tunnelling, by Fred. Walter Simms ; 3rd Edition Revised and Extended, by D. Kinnear Clark, 327
. Railway Appliances : a Description of the Details of Railway Construction Subsequent to the Earthworks and Structures, Including a Short N otice of Railway Rolling Stock, by John Wolf Barry, M.I.C.E., 361
Report of Chief Engineer J. W. King on European Ships of War and their Armament, &c., 37«
Die Drei Rigibahnen und das Zahnrad-System, by Roman Abt, 451
Sanitary Engineering; Lectures given before the School of Military Engineering at Chatham, 1876, by J. Bailey Denton, 414
Science Lectures at South Kensington, Kinematic Models, by Prof. Kennedy, C.E., 211, 247
Shall We ever Reach the Pole? Provost and Co., 309
Telegraphy, by W. H. Preece, C.E., and J. Sive wright, 291
Theory and Action of the Steam Engine for Practical Men, by W. H. Northcott, 450
Trade Marks Registration Acts, 1875 and 1876, by James Lryce, Lincoln’s-inn, Barrister-at-Law, 397
Tramways et Chemins de Per sur Routes; His-torique, Jurisprudence, Regiementation, d’apres les Documents Officicls, par P. Chenot, Chef de Division au Ministbre des Travaux Publics, .291
Treatise on the Mechanical Theory of Heat and its Applications to the Steam Engine, &c., by R. S. McCulloch, C.E., 344
Wood Conversion by Machinery, by J. Richards, M.E., 151
Loan Collection, South Kensington, Handbooks of the, 46
Lock for Railway Carriages, Self-acting Safety, Mr. Maxwell, 293
Locomotive Driving, Practical Papers on, Mr. Michael Reynolds, 375, 428, 442
Locomotive. Goods, London, Brighton, and South-Coast Railway, Mr. W. Stroudley, 2/6, 373
Locomotives on Common Roads, 433
Locomotives for the Danish State Railways (Contracts Open). 452
Locomotives, Repairs and Renewals of, Mr. A.
McDonnell, 38
Locomotives, Special, Mr. Stroudley, 273, 276, 233
London Bridge, 21 .
London and North-Western and Great Western Joint
Railways, Specification for Bessemer Steel Rails (Contracs Open), 196
Loudoun Castle, Compound Engines of the, Messrs. J. and G. Thomson, 341, and Supplement May 18th, 1877
Low Moor Ironworks Puddling Furnaces, 329
Luminous, and Non-Luminous Flame, 436
Lyman, Mr. W., Rowing Gear, 340
McChesney, Mr., Fret Saw, Philadelphia Exhibition, 55, 56
McEvoy, Capt., Spar Torpedo, 340
Machine Puddling and Mr. Smith-Casson’s Furnace, 150, 204, 235, 252, 283
Mahanoy, Inclined Plane, U.S., Safety Trucks, 77, 78
McKean and McGrath, Messrs., Jute Machinery, 195, 196
McLaren, Messrs. J. and H., 12-H.P. Traction Engine, 232
Madder, Colouring Matters, 188, 336
Magnetism of Soft Iron Cylinders, Influence of Form on, 312
Manganese in Spiegeleisen, Estimation of, 270, 336
Map of S.E. Europe, 385
Maps of London for 1877, 56
Marine Engineering, 100
Marine Propulsion, 141, 185, 311
Marshall and Co., Messrs., 8-H.P. Traction Engine, 125, 131
I Maxwell, Mr., Self-acting Safety Lock for Railway Carriages, 293
Measuring Machine, Decimal, Mr. Robert L. Kerr, 162 253, 283
Melting Ladle Plugs, 286
Melting Points, with Special Reference to those of Metallic Salts, High, 74
Memdouhiye, The Turkish Ironclad Frigate, 38, 65
M erchant Ships in Naval Warfare, Fighting Power, of, 194, 221
Metropolitan Board of Works, 360
Middlesbrough, Launch and Trial Trip at, 235
Middlesbi ough Railway Station, 328
Mine Ventilator, Roots’ Chilton Colliery, 412, 416
Mine Ventilators, 429, 446
Mines Opened in France during the Last Forty Years, 180
Mining Regions of Pensylvania, The, 61, 76, 77, 78, 234
Mining Regulations, Faulty, 64
Mining in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, 414
Miscellanea, 5, 23, 39. 57, 75, 102, 111, 129. 143, 161, 177, 199, 217, 231, 249, 267, 287, 301, 319, 339, 353, 871, 393, 407, 425, 447
Monitor, Loss of a Turkish, 336, 351
Motive Power to Distant Points, Transmission of, 216
Moulding, Art of, 96
Municipal Council of Paris, Visit of, 305
Naphthalene Series, Contributions to the History of, 352
Narcotin, Cotarnin and Hydrocotarnin, 453
Navy, Engineers in the, 63, 82, 100, 183, 185, 201, 213, 237, 252, 283
Navy. Trial Trips in the, 29
New York, The Topography of, 220
Niagara Falls, Sale of the Monopoly of the Power of, 317
Nicaraguan Canal 346
Nitric Oxide by Pyrogallate of Potash, Decomposition of, 352
North British Railway, Continuous Brakes on the, North of England, 19, 35. 53, 69, 89, 107, 123, 139, 157, 173, 192, 210, 227, 264, 280, 297, 316, 333, 350, 368, 385, 4u3. 422, 440 457
Notes from Lancashire, 18, 34, 52, 68, 88,106, 122, 138, 157, 173, 191, 209, 227, 245, 263, 279, 296, 315, 334, 349, 367, 384, 403, 421, 439, 457
Notos and Memoranda, 5, 23, 39, 57, 75, 102, 111, 129, 113 161, 177, 199, 217, 231,24% 207, 287, 301, 319, 339* 353, 371, 393, 407, 425, 447
Notes from Scotland, 19, 35, 53, 69, 89, 107, 123, 139, 158 174, 192, 210, 227, 237, 246, 264, 280, 297, 316, 834, 350, 36S, 385, 404, 422, 440, 458
Notices to Correspondents, 11, 29, 45, 63, 81, 99, 117, 133, 149, 167, 183, 201, 219, 255, 273, 307, 325, 343, 359, 377, 395, 413, 431, 449
Nut and Bolt Company, Wiles’ Patent Lock Nut, 276
Nut, Wiles’ Patent Lock, Nut and Bolt Company, 276
Obituary : —
Armstrong, Mr. Joseph, 400,’409
Bain, Mr. Alex., Electrician, 22
Jones, Mr. John, 388
Page, Mr. Thomas, 31
Salt, Sir Titus, 4
Smee, F.R.8., Mr. Alfred, 53
Ordnance and Engineering Works, The Elswick, 150
Ordnance, Manufacture of Heavy, K. C. Eng. Soc., 186
Ore Stamps, Direct-acting Pneumatic, Mr. Sholl, 95, 101
Organic Chemistry and their Ultimate Bearings, Reactions in, 74
Orontes, If.M.S., 433
Otto of Limes, 454
Oundle, Drainage of, 185
Oxford, Main Drainage, 113
Pallion Works, Sunderland, Sale of Machinery and Plant at the, 346, 363, 380
Paraffine, The Coming Material, Prof. Abel on, 56
Paris Exhibition, The, 56, 73
Paris Exhibition Building. 1878—Ground Plan, 58
Paris Exhibition Commission, 1878, 83
Paris Underground Railway, The, 40
Patent Law Amendment Bill, 248
Patent Law, The German, 308, 344, 356
Patent-office, The, 56, 135, 300
Patent-office, The American, 282
Patent-office Drawings, 300
Patents for Invention, Petitions to the Lord Chancellor, 74
Patents for Inventions Bill, 1877, The, 114, 117, 132, 133, 135, 147, 168, 181, 203
Patents in 1876, Number of Applications for, 24
Patents, Preliminary Examination of, 8, 43
Paying Workmen, 220
Penetration of Shot into Armour, 423
Pensylvania, The Mining Regions of, 61, 76, 77, 78, 234
Perfect Squares may be Distinguished, Characters by which, 43
Perkins, Mr. Loftus, Boilers and Engines for High-Pressures, 389, 390, 411
Perrett, Mr. E., Rotary Filter, 101
Petroleum applied to Boilers, Valve and Cock, and Safety Cistern, 398
Petroleum, and Coal Tar Benzine, 108
Philadelphia Exhibition
Cloth Cutting Machine, Mr. Penno, 320]
Cloth Cutting Machine, Mr. Albin Warth, 320
Food Preservation, 72
Fret Saw, Mr. McChesney, 55, 56
Rowing Gear, Mr. W. Lyman, 340
Valve Gear, Mr. H. Bilgram, 341
Phosphor Bronze, 8, 43, 59, 310
Physical Geography, and Physiography, 414
Piecework Question and the Engineering - Shops at Nottingham, The, 69
Pile Driving, Bridge and Quay Works, Dresden, 372, 373, 376, 400
Pine and Fir Timber, from an Engineering Point of View, 126
Plate Pickling Machines, Messrs. Taylor and Co., 268
Ploughs, English v. American, 396
Plugs, Melting Ladle, 286
Plurs, in Graubfinden, Switzerland, The Buried Tillage of, 213
Point and Signal Locking Apparatus, Messrs. Annett and Banister, 162
Pnnley Messrs., International Weighing Machine, 320
Poonah, Lengthening of the Steamship, E.do Russett, 221
Populations of the States of Europe, 9
Portland Cement, Testing of, 186
Prices Current ot Metals, Oils, and Timber, &c.—(See last page of every number.)
Prime Cost, 147
Priming of Steam Boilers, 398, 446
Private Bills—Session 1877, 151
Proiectiles, The Conservation of Energy in, 26, 42, 78, 285
Propeller, Screw, Mr. R. R. Bevis, 427
Propulsion, Marine, 203, 229
Protheroe, C.E., F.R.G.S., Mr., Mooring Anchors, 298
Psychrometer, Observations with the, Dr. R. Ruben-son, 15
Puddling Furnaces at Low Moor Ironworks, 329
Puddling Iron in Gas Furnaces, 150, 204, 235,252, 283, 289, 323, 356, 370, 389, 411, 429, 432, 446
Pump, The Challenge, Steam, Messrs. Robertson, Osbourne, and Co., 162
Pump, Donkey Feed, Mr. H. Leupold, 441, 451
Pump, Reliance, Messrs. Syers, 170
Pump, Waterwitch, Messrs. Blundell, 94, 115
Pumps, Bilge, Messrs. James Watt and Co., 250
Pumps, Ships’, 311
Quebec Harbour Improvements, 409
Radiating Machine, St. Helier’s Harbour Works, Jersey, Sir John Coode, 341
Rail, Mr. King’s, 15
Rail Making, Modern, 274
Rails, Specification for Bessemer Steel, London and North-Western and Great Western Joint Railway (Contracts Open), 196
Railway Accidents, 45, 59
Railway Accidents, Report of the Royal Commission on, 109, 147
Railway Accidents in the United States, 220
Railway Bridges, The Strength of, 118, 146
Railway Carriages, Lighting, Messrs. Puitsch, Pischon, and Co., 235
Railway Companies as Manufacturers, 219
Railway Curves and High Speeds, 37
Railway Management and Continuous Brakes, 149
Railway Matters 5, 23, 39, 57, 75, 102, 111, 129, 143,
161, 177, 199, 217, 231, 249, 267, 287, 301, 319, 339, 353, 371, 393, 407, 425, 447
Railway, The Paris Underground, 40
Railway, Proposed Pneumatic, South Kensington, 453
Railway Servants, Employment of, 300
Railway Stations, Joint, 361
Railways in Ceylon, 100
Railways in China, 1( 0, 343
Railways, Indian State (Contracts Open), 341, 354, 357
Railways in Japan, 362
Railways, Private, 326, 338
Railways of the World, The, 55,100
Raising Water, New Device for, 96
Range Finder, Gen. II. Berdan, 179
Rattening at Sheffield, Tramway, 82
Reading Ironworks Co., The Prize Haymaking Machine, 59
Recorder, Train Speed, Mr. Westinghouse, 9, 10
Red Moss Metal Co , Steel Making by a New Process, Invented by Mr. H. Larkin, 160
Refuse Vegetable Substances, Raising Steam by Combustion of, 93
Resistance of Ships. Wave-Making, 222
Rhone Canal, A Projected, 79
Richmond and Kow Water Supply, 69
Rink at Rusholme, Ice Skating, Opened by Prof.
Gamgee, 22
Rink, A Steel, 7
River Weaver Appointment—Sectarianism v. Engineering, 96
Riveted Joints, The Strength of, 125, 146, 165, 167, 185, 203, 213
Robertson, Osbourne, and Co., Messrs., The “ Challenge ” Steam Pump, 162
Robertson and I’Anson, Messrs, Philmore Bridge, Darlington, 98,101
Rolling Friction, 202
Roofs, Economical Relation of Angles in Trussed, 218
Roofs, Iron, Indian State Railways (Contracts Open), 354, 357
Rope Driving Goar, Mr. J. Durie, 443
Rope Driving Gear, Mr. J. H. Smith’s, Messrs. Pollit and Wigzoll, Sowerby Bridge, 443, 444
Ropes, 235, 311 {See Miscellanea, p. 217)
Ross Winans, Mr., 309
Rouchat Viaduct, Paris and Orleans Railway, 426,484
Rowing Gear, Mr. W. Lyman, 340
Rules, Tables and Data, 323
Russia, Newspapers in, 38
Russian Ironclads iu the Black Sea, 359
Russian Torpedoes and Turkish Ironclads, 387
Ruston, Proctor, and Co., Messrs., Steam Excavating Machine, 73, 80
St. Helier’s Harbour Works, Jersey, 130, 213
St. Helier’s Harbour Works, Jersey, Radiating Steam Hercules, Sir John Goode, 341
Salisbury Cathedral, Restoration of, 120
Salt to Boston, Exportation of English, 336
Sanitary Engineering, 429
Sash Fastener, Mr. Edward’s Patent, 112
Savage, Mr. F., Steam Ploughing and Traction Engine, 113
Scalpa, Proposed Erection of Wooden Pier at, 112
Science and Armour, 255
Science Museum, A, 81
Science, State Aid to, 167
Screw Shafts, The Thrust of, 59
Screw Threads, Machine for Forging, Messrs. Boucha-court and Delille, 417
Seacombe, Cheshire, Landing Stage at, Mr. W. Carson, Engineer, 394, 399
Segeberg, State Salt Mines, Rotative Pumping Engine, 450-H.P., Herrn W. Riehn and C. Meinicke, Engineers, 116, 119, 144, 145, 229, 241
Sorapis, Trial Trip of SS., 283
Severn Bridge, The, Messrs. G. W. Owen, and G. W.
Keeling, 11, 15
Sewage, Disposal of Town, 134, 299, 317, 351, 369, 387 405, 411
Sewage, The Don Valley, 344
Sewage Irrigation, 47
Sewage Question, The, 142, 326
Sewage, The Thames Valley, 149
Sewage Works, Skipton, Mr. Baldwin Latham, C.E., 163, 164,166
“ Shall We ever Reach the Pole,” 323
Shanks and Co., Messrs , Vertical Engine, 387, 391
Sheffield District, 19, 35, 68, 88, 106, 123, 138, 157, 174, 191, 209, 227, 246, 263, 280, 297, 315, 333, 349, 367, 384, 404, 421, 439, 457
Shells, Improvements in Casting, 274
Shields and Rifle Fire, 290
Shipbuilding in Liverpool, A Year’s, 4
Ships, Citadel, 239, 253, 255, 268
Ship Models, Exhibition of, 134, 379, 418
Ships, on the Stability of, Mr. W. John, 240
Shoeburyness, Penetration Experiments with 80-Ton Gun at, Target (No. 41), 73, 91, 317
Sholl, Mr., Direct-acting Pneumatic Ore Stamps, 95, 101
Sholl, Mr., Pneumatic Hammer, 369, 379J(See also p. 95)
Short Hours at the Collieries, 257
Short Time Bill, The Swiss, 79
Sidonian, Explosion on Board the, 432
Signalling, Railway Semaphore, 46
Silicate Paints, 160
Silk industry in Italy, The, 334
Simoom, H.M.S., 436
Skipton Sewage Works, Mr. Baldwin Latham. C.E .
163,164, 166 ’
Slotting Machine, Messrs. W. Collier and Co.. 250, 254
Smith, Mr., Vacuum Brake, 3, 6
Smith Casson, Mr. R., Gas Puddling and Self-stoking Double Furnace, 150, 204, 235, 252, 283
Smith, Mr. J. H., Rope Driving Gear, Messrs. Pollit and Wigzell, 443, 444
Smith, Mr. T., Travelling Steam Crane, 182, 184
Smithfield Club Show—
Messrs. Marshall and Co., 8-H.P. Traction Engine.
125,131 ’
Snow and the Telegraphs, 168, 185, 204, 213, 252
Society of Arts, The, 238, 248, 318
Continuous Brakes for Railways, Capt. Tyler, 304
Patents for Invention Bill, Mr. Trueman Wood, 168
Patents for Invention Bill, Discussion following
Mr. T. Wood’s Paper, 181
Phosphor Bronze and its Applications, Mr. Alexander Dick, 310
Science Lectures, 22
The Way to make Workmen’s Cottages Comfortable, Warm, and Healthy, with special reference to Silicate Paints, Mr F. E. Thicke, 160
Society and Southern Counties Association, Bath and
West of England, 379
Society, The Chemical :—
Ammonium Sulphide, Influence exerted by, in Preventing the Action of Various Solutions on Copper, Messrs. F. W. Shaw and T. Carnelley, 188
Asbestos Cardboard and its Uses in the Laboratory
W. N. Hartley, 352
Aurin into Rosaniline, Transformation of, R. S.
Dale and C. Schorlemmer, 436, 454
Benzene Symbols, Kekule’s and Ladenburg’s, Dr H. E. Armstrong, 142
Bismuth Compounds, Certain, Mr. M. M P Muir
248, 436 ‘ *
Bismuth, Method of Detecting Small Quantities of.
Part V., Mr. M. M. P. Muir, 336
Bismuth Volumetrically, Additional Note on a Process for Estimating, Mr. M. M. P. Muir, 248
Bunsen Lamp, Theory of the, Professor Thorpe 24^
Chromium Pig Iron, Mr. E. Reiley, 248 ’
Copper Zinc Couples, Preparation of, Dr ■' J H
Gladstone and Mr. A. Tribe, 248
Carbometer for the Estimation of Carbonic An-hydride, Mr. S. T. Pruen and Dr. G. Jones, 188
Corrosion of Lead by the New River Company’s
Water, Dr. G. Bischof, 9
Coumaric. Cinnamic, and other Analogous Acids formed from the Aromatic Aldehydes. Mr W H Perkin, 142 ’’ ' *
Crystals by their Optical Characters, Discrimination of, Prof. N. S. Maskelyne, 800
Dehydration of Hydrates by the Time Method. W
Ramsay, 436’ *
D WilUamB1; i8gorivativea °f> Mr- W. Carleton-
Society, the Chemical (continued) —
Dinitroso-orcin and Dinitro-orcin, Dr. J. Stenhouse, F.R.S., 74 .
Dithymyltrichlorethane, On some Derivatives of, Dr. E. Jager, 74
Examination of Substances by the Timo Method, J. B Hannay, 436
Fluid Cavities, Further Study of, Mr. W. N. Hartley, 9
Fluorspar, Note on the Fluid contained]in a Cavity in, J. W. Mallet, 436
Gardenin, Note on, Mr. C. ,E. Groves and Dr. J. Stenhouse, 248
Gas Analysis, Apparatus for, Dr. Frankland, 453
Gas Analysis, Some Points in, Air. J. W. Thomas, 352
Gases Enclosed in Lignite Coal and Mineral Resin from Bovey Heathfield, Devon, J. W. Thomas, 453
High Melting Points, with special reference to those of Metallic Salts, Parts II. and III., Dr. T. Carnelly, 9, 74
Isomeric Nitroso-terpenes, Dr. W. A. Tilden and Mr. W. A. Shenstone, 248
Luminous and Non-luminous Flame, Theory of the, J. Philipson, 436
Madder Colouring Matters, Notes on, Dr. E. Schunck and Dr. H. Roemer, 188, 336
Manganese in Spiegeleisen and of Manganese and Iron in Manganiferous Iron Ores, Estimation of, E. Riley, 336
Naphthalene Series, Contributions to the History of the, Air. Groves and Dr. Stenhpuse, 352
Narcotin, Cotarnin, and Hydrocotarnin, Part V., Dr. Wright, 453
Nitric Oxide by Pyrogallate of Potash, Experiments on Decomposition of, Dr. Russell and Air. W. Lapraik, 352
Otto of Limes, C. H. Piosse and Dr. Wright, 454
Preliminary Account of some New Reactions in Organic Chemistry and their Ultimate Bearings, Mr. 0. T. Kingzett and Dr. H. W. Hake, 74
Primary Normal Heptyl Alcohol and some of its Derivatives, Air. C. T. Cross, 454
Slight Modification of Hofmann’s Vapour Density Apparatus, Mr. Al. M. P. Muir and S. Suguira, 436
Solvent Action of various Saline Solutions on Lead, Mr. M. M. P. Muir, 188
Thymoquinone, Dr. H. E. Armstrong, 9
Urea, Estimation of, Air. G. Turner, 9
Urea by means of Hypobromite, Estimation of, Dr.
A. Duprd, 188
Urea by Aleans of Hypobromite, Determination of, Dr. Al. Simpson and Air. C. O’Keefe, 248
Waters from Wells near the Sea, Experimental Inquiry as to the Changes which occur in the Composition of, Air. W. H. Watson, 188
Society of Civil Engineers, The American, 451
Society of Civil and AIechanical Engineers, 172, 409
Llandudno Promenade Pier, Air. Charles H. Rew, 370
Society, Edinburgh and Leith Engineers’, 4
Society of Engineers, 248, 323, 427
Inaugural Address of the President, Air. T. Cargill, C.E., 93
Alechanical Firing of Steam Boilers, Air. J. Walter Pearse, 187
Priming of Steam Boilers, Air. William Alajor, 398 Society of Glasgow, The Philosophical
Patents for Inventions, 74
Society, King s College Engineering
The Art of Moulding, Mr. E. W. Anderson, 96
Comparison between the Bars at the Entrance of the Harbours of Kurrachee and Natal, and the Harbour Works at both Places, Mr. E. Crompton,
Continuous Brakes, Air. A. Percy Guinness, 147
Docks, Mr. W. T. Douglass, 318
Dynamite, Air. J. C. Mackay, 139
Gas-Lighting oy Electricity, Air. St. George Lane Fox, 398
Main Drainage of London, Air. H. E. Kitson, 361 Alanufacture of Heavy Ordnance, Mr. Wilfrid H.
Fleming, 186 •
Alanufactui e of Sugar, Air. Jas. A. Samuel, 427 Alechanical Power on Tramways, Air. A. H. Leaf.
338 ’
Society, The Liverpool Engineering, 147
Computation of Earthwork, Mr. 0. H. Baldry, 418 Drainage of Towns, Mr. C. Graham Smith, A.l.C E.
238
Hydraulic Machinery, with Special Reference to its Application to Railway Goods Yards, Mr. Alexander Ross, 263, 318
Society, Liverpool Polytechnic :—
Pine and Fir Timber, Considered from an Engineer-ing Point of View, Mr. C. Graham Smith, 126
Society of London, The Geological, 115
Society The Meteorological, 61, 147, 214, 293
Hygrometry, Contributions to—The Wet Bulb Thermometer, by Mr. W. Marriott, F.AI.S., 15 Mercurial Barometer, Improved Form of, Air. R E
Power, F.M.S., 352
Psychrometer, Observations with the, Dr. R. Rubenson, 15
Relation between the Upper and Under Currents of the Atmosphere around Areas of Barometric Depression, Rev. W. Clement Ley, M.A., F.M.S, 352
Visibility, The Hon. Ralph Abercrombie, F.AI.S,, 15 Society The Royal, 282, 418
Thermometers, Air. F. Galton, F.R.S., 238
Society, The Royal Agricultural, 370
Society of Telegraph Engineers, The
Inaugural Address of the President, Prof. Abel, F.R.S.,on the Conductivity of Copper, and Re-femng to Paraffine as the Coming Material. 56 Sound Diagrams, 192, 203
South Kensington Museum, 19, 70, 96, 124. 138 210
228, 246, 280, 298, 323, 346, 370, 404, 422, 440 ’ ’
Spark Arresters on Locomotives, 150 Specifications, American, 100
Specifications, Destruction of, 151
Specifications, Printing, 63
Specifications, Printing, Letter from Air. H. H Murdoch,—Circular of Commissioners and Mr. ’ Alur-doch s Reply, 22
Specifications, Printing, Report of Conversation bo-tween Bench and Bar, 4
Speed Indicator, Messrs. J. and J. Butler, 293
Speeds, Railway, 8
Squeezer, Improved, Mr. J. Head, 355, 358, 398
Steam Launch on the Danube, 443
Steamers, Channel, 268
Steamers, Light Draught, 187
Steamship, City of Brussels, The, 385
Steamship, Alethod of Recording and Comparing
Performances of, Mr. J. Inglis, jun . 292 Panne Steel, Dr. C. W. Siemens, 206 3 '
Steel, Fibrous, 378
StCo4tny’f Worksuro Pr°C°9S’ at Rod Mos3 Motal
Steel in Railway Structures, Use of, 361 gteel, Solid Cast, Mons. F. Gautier, on, 212, 271 Steel, Solid Cast, M. Pourcel on, 186 Steel Wire, Strong, 274
Stoels, Hot Short, 8
Steering of Screw Ships, 361
StDuOst3°335 Mr> G- K'’ APParatu3 Burning Coal
Stockwell, Self-lighting Gas Burner Company, Self-S®SW. Pearse, See. Eng., on, Stone-Breaker, Multiple Action, Mr. Hall, 94 Stourbridge,^Proposed New Bridge at, 69
Closer, 153
ISX, - th° SueTcaS^D^p^ratJght ironclads, Passage of
310
Sugar Making, A New Process in, 184
Sugar, Manufacture of, 427
A.,Anchors, 427
Mohling Machines, 263
Telegraphs, Snow and the, 168, 185, 204, 218, 252 Telegraphy, Aerial, 30
Testing Boilers m the Navy,
Thames Floods, The, 45
Thames, The River, Mr. J. B. Redman, 242
Thames, Steam Ferry, The, 64 t? M q
Thermometer, The Wet Bulb, Mr. W. Marriott, F.M.S.
15
Thermometers, 238
Thetford Corporation Waterworks, 31b
Thetis, H.M.S., 220
Thomas v. The Queen, 183. 204
Thompson, Mr. W. B., Ship’s Windlass 94, 9o
Thorneycroft and Co., Messrs. Torpedo Vessels, 337 Threshing Machine Accidents Bill, ine, no
Thunderer. H.M.S., 26, 27, 43, 377, 398 . ,
Thwaites, Mr. C., Borough Engineer for Sunderland,
Thwaites and Carbutt, Messrs., Coke Crusher, 159 168 Thwaites and Carbutt, Messrs., Reversing Rolling
Mill Engines at the New Cleveland Steel n orks, "Raf’ATl xlQ 41. 44 •
Thwaites and Carbutt, Messrs., Wheel Trimming Hammer for the Stanningley Ironworks, W. Leeds,
Thymoquinone, Dr. H. E. Armstrong, Chemical So-Time^Method, Examination of Substances by the, 436 Tongs, Up-ending, Mr. Jeremiah Head. 417
Torpedo Launches in Naval Warfare, 413
Torpedo Range at. the Royal Arsenal, 411
Torpedo Vessels, Messrs. Thorneycroft and Co., 337 Torpedoes, 411, 446
Torpedoes at Sea, 184
Torpedoes, Spar, Capt. McEvoy, 340
Toroedoes in the United States, 4
Tourmaline, 256, 274 275, 282 234 288 293
Tourmaline, Engine and Boilers of H.M.S., 284, 288, 293
Trade Marks, Registration of, 15, 150, 202, 238
Train Despatching in America. 281
Tram Car, Rowan s Steam, 446
Tram Cars, Bells on, 450
Tramway Locomotives in Vienna, 443
Tramway Working at Sheffield, 433
Tramways, Committee of the House of Commons on, 168, 176, 195 v
Tramways (Mechanical Powers Bill), 429
Tramways, Paris, 323
Tramways, Steam Power on London, 133, 150, 168, 176, 185, 195, 265, 283, 290, 307, 311, 323, 338
Trucks, Safety Mahanoy Inclined Plane, 77, 78
Tube Ferules, Cast Iron, 257
Tube-plate Cutters, 323
Tunnel, Dover and Folkestone, 361
Tunnel, The Severn, 450
Turbine, Mr. Leffel’s, 59
Turbine at Waltham Abbey, Royal Gunpowder Factory, 43
Turkish Monitor, Destruction of a, 336, 351
Tynewydd Colliery, Rhondda Valley, Calamity in the, 265
Tyzack, Mr. G., Ship’s Anchor, 355
Urea by means of Hypobromite, Estimation of, 188
Urea by means of Hypobromite, Determination of 248
Utilising Natural Forces, Dr. C. ,W. Siemens on, 205.
253
Valve Gear, Mr. H. Bilgram, Philadelphia Exhibition, 341
Van, Break-down, Belgian State Railways, 112
Vanguard, The, 192
Vapour Density Apparatus, Hofmann’s, 436
Viaduct, Rouchat, Paris and Orleans Railways, 426, 434
Vienna, Pneumatic Clock, Herr Ingenieur, A. C., Mayrhofer, 442, 448
Visibility, The Hon. Ralph Abercrombie, F.M.S., 15
Wales and the Adjoining Connties, 19, 35, 53, 69, 89, 107, 123, 139, 158, 174, 192, 210, 246, 261, 280,297,316, 334, 350, 368, 385, 404, 422, 440, 453
War between Russia and Turkey, The, 307, 351, 359
Water* Meters, 252, 238
Water Power in India and Ireland, 8, 43, 59
Water-Pressure Machinery, History of the Modern Development of, Sir G. W. Armstrong, 361
Water Supply of Aifreton, 378
Water Supply of Halifax, 360
Water Supply, London, 82, 99, 286
Water Supply, The Napier, 263
Water Supply, Richmond, 125
Water Supply of Villages and Towns, 37, 96, 238
Waters from Wells near the Sea, Enquiry into Changed which occur in the Composition of, 183
Waterworks, Braintree, 235
Watt, Messrs. James, and Co., Bilge Pumps, 250
Watt Room at Heathfield, The, 247, 397
Web Printing and Folding Machine, Continuous, Messrs. Hoe, 215, 218
Weighing Machine, International, Messrs. Pooley, 320
Wells, Deep, 147, 204
Westinghouse, Mr., Automatic Air Brake, 2, 3, 6
Whitworth, Sir Joseph, and Co-operation, 201
Wick, Fall of a Wire Foot-Bridge at, 79
Wilson and Co., Messrs. Alex., Compound Condensing
Launch Engines, Vauxhall Iron Works, 24
Windlass, Ship’s, Mr. W. B. Thompson, 94, 95
Wire for the Brooklyn Bridge, 160
Wire Rope Conductors in Mine Shafts, Compensator for Tightening, Mr. Heydon, 112
Wood Paving, Mr. Henson’s, 251
Works in Progress in the year 1877, 11
Yarrow and Co., Messrs., Experiments with Shields and Rifle Fire, 290
York, New, Railway Station, 452
Zazel, 274
Zinc, Purifying, 336
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